Full Text of HB1022 102nd General Assembly
HB1022ham001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Rita Mayfield Filed: 4/3/2022
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1022
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1022 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Notice By Publication Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 12 as follows: | 6 | | (715 ILCS 5/12) | 7 | | Sec. 12. Minority groups. | 8 | | (a) As used in this Section: | 9 | | "Bonds" means any instrument evidencing the obligation to | 10 | | pay money authorized or issued by or on behalf of a | 11 | | governmental unit under applicable law, including, but not | 12 | | limited to, bonds, notes, installment or financing contracts, | 13 | | leases, certificates, tax anticipation warrants or notes, | 14 | | vouchers, and any other evidences of indebtedness. | 15 | | "Governmental unit" means a township, municipality, | 16 | | municipal corporation, unit of local government, school |
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| 1 | | district, special district, public corporation, body corporate | 2 | | and politic, forest preserve district, fire protection | 3 | | district, conservation district, park district, sanitary | 4 | | district, and all other local governmental agencies, including | 5 | | any entity created by intergovernmental agreement among any of | 6 | | the foregoing governmental units. "Governmental unit" not | 7 | | include (i) any office, officer, department, division, bureau, | 8 | | board, commission, university, or similar agency of the State | 9 | | or (ii) any county. | 10 | | "Minority group" means a group that is a readily | 11 | | identifiable subset of the U.S. population that is | 12 | | distinguished by racial, ethnic, or cultural heritage and by | 13 | | non-English language of country of origin. | 14 | | "Minority-owned newspaper" means a newspaper which is at | 15 | | least 51% owned by one or more persons of a minority group or | 16 | | in the case of a corporation, at least 51% of the stock in | 17 | | which is owned by one or more persons of a minority group, and | 18 | | the management and daily business operations of which are | 19 | | controlled by one or more of the minority group individuals | 20 | | who own it. | 21 | | (b) If a notice, other than a notice in connection with the | 22 | | issuance of bonds, is required to be published by a | 23 | | governmental unit in a newspaper under State law where a | 24 | | minority group comprises more than 45% of the residents of the | 25 | | governmental unit, the notice shall also be published in a | 26 | | minority-owned newspaper in the official language of the |
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| 1 | | minority group's country of origin, if such language is not | 2 | | English and the newspaper is of general circulation in that | 3 | | governmental unit. If a notice, other than a notice in | 4 | | connection with the issuance of bonds, is required to be | 5 | | published by a county in a newspaper under State law and the | 6 | | county includes a municipality in which a minority group | 7 | | comprises more than 45% of the residents of the municipality, | 8 | | for each such municipality, the county shall also publish the | 9 | | notice in a minority-owned newspaper in the official language | 10 | | of the minority group's country of origin, if such language is | 11 | | not English and the newspaper is of general circulation in | 12 | | that municipality. | 13 | | (c) Any error in the determination by a county or | 14 | | governmental unit that a minority group does not comprise more | 15 | | than 45% of the residents of a governmental unit or any error | 16 | | in any notice published in an official language of a minority | 17 | | group's country of origin pursuant to this Section that is not | 18 | | deliberate shall not invalidate or affect the validity of any | 19 | | publication. | 20 | | If a notice is required to be published in a newspaper under | 21 | | this Act where the city, town, or county consists of more than | 22 | | 45% of a single minority group, the notice shall also be | 23 | | published in a local newspaper of that minority group, if | 24 | | available, and in the official language of
the minority | 25 | | group's country of origin.
| 26 | | (Source: P.A. 102-592, eff. 1-1-22 .)".
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